Iron in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs

Where a city can make iron, and what it lacks elsewhere. A necessity: a city that cannot make it must buy it.

The metal: Iron

On these rocks

Granite, Volcanic rock, Schist and gneiss, Limestone and chalk, Sandstone, shale and clay

What it may lack

• neither woods nor coal for the furnaces
• these rocks hold no ore of it

Trades it raises

Smiths, Miners

Where it can be made

A town in the tropical rainforest, A town in the tropical rainforest, on a river, A town in the tropical rainforest, on the coast, A town in the tropical dry forest, A town in the tropical dry forest, on a river, A town in the tropical dry forest, on the coast, A town in the temperate forest, A town in the temperate forest, on a river, A town in the temperate forest, on the coast, A town in the temperate conifer forest, A town in the temperate conifer forest, on a river, A town in the temperate conifer forest, on the coast, A town in the taiga, A town in the taiga, on a river, A town in the taiga, on the coast, A town in the savanna (at a cost), A town in the savanna, on a river (at a cost), A town in the savanna, on the coast (at a cost), A town in the grassland (at a cost), A town in the grassland, on a river (at a cost), A town in the grassland, on the coast (at a cost), A town in the flooded grassland (at a cost), A town in the flooded grassland, on a river (at a cost), A town in the flooded grassland, on the coast (at a cost), A town in the alpine meadow (at a cost), A town in the alpine meadow, on a river (at a cost), A town in the alpine meadow, on the coast (at a cost), A town in the mediterranean scrub, A town in the mediterranean scrub, on a river, A town in the mediterranean scrub, on the coast, A town in the hot desert (at a cost), A town in the hot desert, on a river (at a cost), A town in the hot desert, on the coast (at a cost), A town in the cold desert (at a cost), A town in the cold desert, on a river (at a cost), A town in the cold desert, on the coast (at a cost), A town in the barrens (at a cost), A town in the barrens, on a river (at a cost), A town in the barrens, on the coast (at a cost)

Orders of magnitude for play: sourced figures and Hearth estimates together. Every source, and every figure still waiting for one, is listed in the builder under Sources.

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